The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13
Notes and Opinions.

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that Mr.. Blaine is conducting himself
with gentlemanly propriety in England.
SENATOR ALLISON of Iowa is to visit
several important states, it is said, in the
interest of Mr.. Blaine's denomination
in 1888. This may be true, or it may not.
THE Springfield Republican was badly
sold last week by some one who sent it
a lengthy story of the sale of the Boston
Advertiser and Record. No other paper
had the news and " all the truth about
it =" for some hours.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY announces
that the democrats will win in 1888,
"because they are intrenched in the
strongholds of the Offices" Thus does
iovial reform hold sway under a
pretentious administration. - LoUeU
Courier.
f. j. COUCH, the Nebraska weather
prophet, says there will be considerable
cool weather in July, and probably light
frosts about the GOTH This is con-
soling to those who don't enjoy hot
weather, but we can well dispense with
the frosts.
JEFF. DAVIS addressed a military
company at Beauvoir on July and
told the ex-confederates that they must
not supinely let any one call them
rebels or traitors. They fought for
the same noble cause as did Washing
ton. Comment is unnecessary.
AND now comes the superintendent
of western railway line with the inteli-
gence that the number of clergymen in
the country has quadrupled within the
past six months. This is another of the
beneficial effects of the interstate COM
merce law. For further particulars see
section twenty-five of that statute.
THE last issue of Harper'S Weekly
expresses the opinion that the next
presidential canvass will hinge on the
personal qualities of the two candi-
dates, rather than upon principles, and
that the man whose record best pleases
the people will win. This is truly the
mugwump idea-men, not principles.
VERY many of our people will regret
to learn that James E. Curran, special
examiner of the pension department,
has been discharged by the " reform -
administration. Mr.. Curran was most
faithful and efficient examiner and pos
sessed universal popularity. OF course
there was no reason for his dismissal
except that some hungry democrat
wanted the place.-St. Johnsbury Re
publican.
THE rebel flag episode has upset the
plan of nominating a southern ex-rebel
to run on the ticket with Grover Cleve-
land in 1888. Leading democratic Of
fice-holders are now looking to General
| Black, General Villas and General
! be hitched up with Cleveland to draw
him out of the confederate quag-
mire into which his rebel flag order
sunk him.-COncord Monitor.
THE President has written a long let
ter declining the invitation to visit St.
Louis, and saying that he feels much
hurt by his treatment at the hands of
the Grand Army veterans. The Presi-
dent expresses his willingness, person
ally, to submit to insult, which he as
sumes would be the result of his going,
but is unwilling to expose to affront
"the peoples highest office" the dig
nifty of which, he says, he must protect.
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SOME democratic newspapers are
pleased with the battle-fag incident as
disposing of denomination. They
are altogether mistaken in this. Mr..
Cleveland has strengthened his hold on
the great body of his party in the South
and on very considerable section of
it in the North by this bit of consist
ency. And he surely is more accepta-
BILE to the mugwumps than ever. This
kind of attitude towards the war is
their favorite card in politics. 1t is
that they used to distract the republican
party.-Philadelphia american.
REPUBLICANS pronounce the letter
of the President to the mayor of St.
Louis the weakest of all his executive
carnations. They assert that the
President never intended to make the
st. Louis visit, but embraced the pre-
text to make bid for public sympathy,
to the end that the story of the con-
federate flag episode might possibly be
alleviated, if not wholly removed. The
letter is denounced for its diffuseness,
which, it is argued, was wholly I'M
necessary, but which revealed its mo-
tive Washington Special to Boston
Journal.
THoUGH he (Judge Poland) had
reached an age when many lay aside
active duties, the habit of work was still
upon him. He kept abreast of the
times. He had no thought of retiring
to an idle old age, and his mental vigor
and keen insight into the problems of
the day gave promise of years of use
fulness yet to come. He had fought
many political battles, but advancing
years seemed to smooth over old differ
ences, and he was rarely heard to refer
to old political antagonists unless in
some humorous way, with twinkle in
his eye that generally foretold a story
from an apparently ineXhaustible fund
of anecdote and experience. st. Johns